Abigial loves to do the Mambo dance. First, she marches in place. Then, she wiggles her hips(the best part!). Lastly, she circles her hands. She's a very good little dancer.
Abigial knows many, many animal sounds(even whale), can tell you where milk and eggs come from, how apples grow and are harvested, and "reads" every rhyming word on each page in the book "There's a Wocket in my Pocket". She also "reads" her own portion of the book "Dear Zoo". The larger puzzles(like the ones in the background of the video) are fairly easy for her, so we have moved to 12 piece jigsaw puzzles. She has added the Spanish words for thank you(gracias), jump(salto), and school(escuela) to her repertoire and frequently uses 3 word phrases. It is truly amazing to watch as both girls learn and grow.
I don't know what got into Emily, but she just suddenly started wrestling Abigail. I think it took Abigail off guard too. She just yells, "Sister! Stuck!" She is very good at telling Mommy exactly what sister has done.
Emily calls Abigail "Sissy" unless Mommy is yelling for her, and then she tries to mimic me and yells, "ABBA!". She has also gotten into telling the cat to "shoo, shoo" and even tells that to people that she doesn't want to deal with. However, she is great at telling you, "Thank you" when you give her something. She also says "Welcome" when you say "thank you" to her. She is usually very polite.
This was the girls first Trick or Treating experience. They were our little Monkeys and Daddy and I were zoo keepers. Abigail was attached to Daddy all night, not letting him put her down. She would say "Teet-Teet" instead of "Trick or Treat". Emily went from person to person and was very into getting candy. When they offered seconds she would gladly accept and then try to go back for thirds. She would say "Treat", knock on doors, and even try to turn the door knob if they didn't answer quickly enough.
Dorthy (A.K.A. Momo) helped Emily walk from house to house.
Emily became attached to Sheri throughout the night.
Daddy was more excited about getting candy than Abigail was. Maybe she already knew that she wouldn't be getting too much of it.
Then we went to the pumpkin patch in Bixby with Momo and Jordan. The girls climbed all over mounds of pumpkins, feed goats, sheep, and pigs, and got to see camels, rabbits, a giant turtle, and chickens.
Abigail is already identifying her shapes. She knows, and is able to say, circle, square, triangle(even though she missed it in this video), rectangle, oval, diamond, and, her favorite, star, which she also knows in Spanish.
Emily knows star and circle. While Abigail is great at language, Emily is advancing quickly in her fine motor skills. She is great at stacking blocks, putting things together, coloring, "writing", and can already catch a ball! We think she may turn out to be left handed and quite the little athlete.
Abigail also knows four colors and is able to identify things that are those colors. Her favorite is blue, which she called everything "blue" for a while, but know is able to differentiate between that and green, red, and pink. We are working on yellow and orange.
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